David Pearson (Independent Scholar)

Gebundenes Buch

Book Ownership in Stuart England

Beschreibung

This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.

Autor

David Pearson retired in 2017 as Director of Culture, Heritage & Libraries for the City of London Corporation. He combined a successful professional career in libraries with an academic profile as a book historian, and his books on provenance and bookbinding history have become standard reference works. He is a Past President of the Bibliographical Society, and teaches regularly on Rare Book Schools around the world. He was Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford, 2017-18, and will be Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge in 2023.

Produktdetails

• Lyell Lectures in Bibliography
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780198870128
• ISBN-10: 0198870124
• Artikelnr.: 60324162